Note: Jim and I have known Jami for a number of years. She works as the TRIO Educational Talent Search Director and Grants Supervisor at USU Blanding in Blanding, Utah. A Blanding native, she’s been active in a number of…
As some of you may know, for thirty five years, my wife, Janice, the Hopi in the family, and I, the white guy in the family, operated Tsakurshovi, a shop on the Hopi Rez in Arizona. We had a unique…
Without fanfare, it was reported in 2016 that the Union Pacific railroad had torn down the old depot in Thompson Springs, Utah, 35 miles north of Moab. The station hadn’t been used in years and had fallen into disrepair, though…
(From the 1995 Zephyr archives) Years ago, when Hardy Redd, my neighbor friend across the mountain, told me that the Mormon historian Leonard J. Arrington was to write a biography of Hardy’s father, the legendary Charlie Redd, I was quite…
Early in the morning of December 7, 1941, Herb Ringer set off for a solitary drive in the back country south of Reno, Nevada. The day, which would prove to be one of the most painful and well-remembered days in…
December 22, 1941 Travel this month, 174 Travel to Date, 562 General I returned to duty December 1, after a months vacation in California. [I commend] Relief Ranger Russ Mahan on his work, during his short period of Duty at…
Our regular readers know that we began a new project at the Zephyr last year–called “Zephyr America.” We’ve been slowly wading through the massive Zephyr archives of historic photos and digitizing them to share with our readers. To keep up…
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